
Now, therefore, I, Reginald Edward, Baron Dilhorne, Lord High Chancellor
of Great Britain, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 4 and 8 of the Foreign Compensation Act 1950
, do hereby approve the said rules in the form
set out in the schedule
hereto and direct that they shall come into operation on 6th May 1964.

Dilhorne, C
Dated 29th April 1964The Seal of the Foreign Compensation Commission was hereunto
affixed this 23rd day of April 1964.
C. Montgomery White
Chairman of the Commission
H. H. Butcher
Secretary

SCHEDULE
The Foreign Compensation Commission,
in exercise of their powers under section 4
of the Foreign
Compensation Act 1950, hereby make the following
Rules:—

1 

(1) These Rules may be
cited as the Foreign Compensation Commission (Amendment) Rules 1964.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889
shall apply to the interpretation of these Rules as if they were an Act of
Parliament.
2 
The Foreign Compensation Commission Rules 1956 shall be amended as follows:—
(a) The following paragraph
shall be added after paragraph (2) of Rule 1:—
“
(3) Nothing
in these Rules shall apply to applications under the 
Foreign Compensation (Egypt) (Determination and Registration of Claims) Order
1962.”
(b) In Rule 2(1) the definition of “ Adjudication ” shall be deleted.
(c) The following paragraph
shall be substituted for paragraph (1) of Rule 11:—
“
(1) The Legal
Officer may at any time file with the Secretary a statement recommending the
Commission to admit a claim at the sum claimed or agreed in writing by the
Applicant to be the amount of his loss, and the Commission may determine the
matter accordingly by admitting the claim at a sum not less than the sum so
recommended. A recommendation may be filed at any time before determination
notwithstanding that an Answer has been filed under 
Rule 12.”
(d) In Rules 16 and 18 there shall
be substituted for the word “ adjudication ”
 wherever it occurs the word “ determination
”.
(e) In Rule 21 there shall be substituted
for the word “ adjudicated ” the word “ determined ”.
(f) There shall be inserted
in Rule 35 immediately
after the word “provided ” the words “ by any Order in Council made under the Act or ”.

(g) The following Rule
shall be substituted for Rule 38:—“
Provisional
Determinations and Reviews
(1) All determinations of the Commission, including those mentioned
in Rule 11 but
not in Rule 22,
shall be provisional and subject to review. Subject as hereinafter provided,
the time for and procedure upon review shall be at the discretion of the Commission.

(2) Before reviewing any provisional
determination the Commission shall serve upon the Applicant notice of intention
to review.
(3) The Commission may invite the
Applicant and the Legal Officer to submit additional evidence or written arguments
or to attend an oral hearing on review, or may give leave to them respectively
so to do if application for such leave is made before the expiration of 21
days after the service of notice of intention to review, but, unless so invited
or given leave and subject as hereinafter provided, neither the Applicant
nor the Legal Officer shall be entitled to have an oral hearing on review
or to submit any additional evidence or arguments.
(4) The Applicant shall be entitled
to submit additional written evidence and arguments or to have an oral hearing
if the Commission propose on review to disallow or reduce the amount of any
claim provisionally allowed, and the Legal Officer shall be so entitled if
the Commission propose on review to increase the amount of a claim provisionally
allowed or to allow a claim provisionally disallowed.
(5) The Commission shall serve upon
the Applicant and the Legal Officer respectively (as the case may require)
notice in writing of any such proposal as is referred to in paragraph (4)
of this Rule, and any written evidence and arguments and demand for an oral
hearing on review shall be served upon the Commission before the expiration
of 21 days from the service of the notice of such proposal.
(6) There shall not be more than one
review of any determination.
”